Category: Reports
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Beit Ummar collectively punished for peaceful demonstration
15 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank October 14th was the seventeenth day of the hunger strike of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. People took to the streets for a solidarity demonstration in the village of Beit Ummar, Hebron. This is the second such demonstration in this village, a similar march last week…
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Hebron school demonstrates for third day: “Without teachers there is no school”
13 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank For the third morning children and teachers from Qordoba Scool gathered on the H1 side of Checkpoint 56 at 7.30am. The children, with the support of their teachers and the Director of Education in Hebron, Nisreen Amro, peacefully protested against heightened “security measures” that were introduced…
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Nablus enters sixth day of hunger strike as concern for exile looms
by Alistair George 13 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Six protesters in Nablus completed their fifth day on open hunger strike today in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails. Palestinian prisoners in several Israeli jails began open hunger strikes, taking only water with salt, on the 27 September…
